I graduated from Augusta High School in 1994. I am an alumni from Garfield Elementary and Augusta Middle School (the old 3 building school).

Go Butler County Grizzlies 1996

Go Friends Falcons 1998

GO!  Go! Friends Falcons 2003

High School Diploma 1994

Associates of Arts from Butler County Community College 1996

Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Friends University 1998

Masters of Arts in Education (Curriculum and Design) from Friends University 2003

We the People (James Madison Legacy Project) 2017

Century of Progress (Teaching American History Grant) 2013

I began my teaching career at Augusta Middle School in 1999 teaching 7^th Grade American History.  As times changed, I moved to 8^th Grade American History and continue teaching American History from Colonial Era thru Reconstruction.  

I graduated in the Fall of 1998, so the spring of 1999 I covered two long term substitute positions.  For the first 9 weeks I covered 1^st grade at Ewalt Elementary in Augusta, KS.  During this time I learned how to keep 1^st graders in the hallway for 2 hours while the Haysville Tornado occurred.  My 2^nd nine weeks of the semester I jumped to 8^th grade English at the Augusta Middle School.  A couple of weeks into this experience the Columbine shooting occurred in Colorado.  We at AMS had our own scare and spent a day up at the high school, while the building was being searched from an outside group.  This was a unique way to start my education career.